Purity Zinc Metals, LLC, (PZM) of Clarksville, TN, USA, has announced the purchase of Advanced Metalworking Practices, Inc. (AMP) of Carmel, IN, USA. Advanced Metalworking is a major supplier of feedstocks for the North American market and internationally ... Read more »
H.C. Starck, of Goslar, Germany, has introduced a new hardmetal (cemented carbide) binder material designated AMPERSINT® MAP which is based on iron and is said to be a cheaper alternative to the cobalt binder normally used. The company states that in add ... Read more »
Fraunhofer IKTS, the Dresden-based research centre for development of advanced ceramics and hard materials, reports that it has successfully demonstrated the manufacture of steel-ceramic composites using multicomponent powder injection moulding (PIM) fol ... Read more »
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research IFAM in Bremen, northern Germany, have succeeded in developing a miniature MIM demonstration part weighing only 5.4 milligrams and having a wall thickness ... Read more »
Mould Research Co. ltd which has been producing MIM parts in Kasutsu City, Shiga Pref., since 1998 and is today one of Japan‘s leading MIM companies, has changed its name to Technes Co Ltd with effect from August 2007. The company uses a patented single ... Read more »
OM Group, the Cleveland, Ohio, based producer of cobalt powder and specialist nickel powders, has completed the previously announced sale of its nickel business to Norilsk Nickel for $408 million in cash. Norilsk is Russia’s largest mining and metallurg ... Read more »
QinetiQ Nanomaterials Ltd (QNL) is to commission a new small scale production plant in Farnborough, UK, in October 2007 for its range of nanopowders produced by the plasma vaporisation process – the so-called Tesima® process. ‘The new rig will enable Q ... Read more »
ECKA Granulate GmbH of Fürth/Bayern, Germany, one of the world’s largest non-ferrous powder producers reports that it is to discontinue copper powder production at its MicroMet site in Hamburg early in October 2008 where Cu and other powders have been ... Read more »
Engel Austria GmbH launched its newly developed, compact, fully electric E-Motion Focus 100 injection moulding machine earlier this year at Chinaplas in Guangzhou, China. The major features of the new model series, which will be available by the end of 20 ... Read more »
The Fraunhofer IFAM Institute in Bremen, Germany, has developed a process for the manufacture of complex-shaped profiles by extruding metal injection moulding feedstock. Research activities have been directed towards expanding the scope of applications ... Read more »
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